The Deccan States Agency was a unit of British India exercising suzerainty

Suzerainty

Suzerainty occurs where a region or people is a tributary to a more powerful entity which controls its foreign affairs while allowing the tributary vassal state some limited domestic autonomy. The dominant entity in the suzerainty relationship, or the more powerful entity itself, is called a...

 over a number of princely states. The agency was created in the 1930s, and was composed of a number of princely states in western India, located in the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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 and Karnataka

Karnataka

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. The Deccan States Agency was combined with the residency of Kolhapur, and was also called the Deccan States Agency and Kolhapur Residency. Before the creation of the Deccan States Agency, the states were under the suzerainty, but not the control, of the British province of Bombay Presidency

Bombay Presidency

The Bombay Presidency was a province of British India. It was established in the 17th century as a trading post for the English East India Company, but later grew to encompass much of western and central India, as well as parts of post-partition Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula.At its greatest...

. After Indian Independence in 1947, the states all acceded to the Dominion of India

Dominion of India

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, and were integrated into the Indian state of Bombay

Bombay State

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. In 1956 the southern portion of Bombay state was transferred to Mysore State

Mysore State

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 (later renamed Karnataka), while the rest of Bombay State was divided into the new states of Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960.

States of the Deccan States Agency

• Akalkot
• Aundh
  Aundh State
  Aundh State was a princely state in British India, in the Deccan States Agency division of the Bombay Presidency. It was one of the Satara Jagirs, and was founded in 1699. It was founded by Parshuram Tryambak Pant Pratinidhi who was warrior during the period of Sambhaji Raje and Rajaram Maharaj...
  
  
• Bavda
• Bhor
  Bhor State
  Bhor State was one of the princely states of British India, under the Poona political agency of the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. Along with Akkalkot State, Aundh State, Phaltan State, and Jath State, it was one of the Satara Jagirs...
  
  
• Himmat Bahadur
• Ichalkaranji
  Ichalkaranji
  Ichalkaranji is located at . It has an average elevation of 538 metres .Ichalkaranji , lies in the Pancaganga valley about eighteen miles east of Kolhapur and half a mile north of the river. It is six miles southeast of Hatkanangale railway station...
  
  
• Bhoite Saranjam
  Bhoite Saranjam
  Bhoite Saranjam was one of the Political saranjam in British India under Bombay Presidency. Its Capital was Jalgaon City. It was one of the Maratha Jagir. Its ruler was from from the Hindu Kshatriya dynasty of Marathas named Bhoite....
  
  
• Jamkhandi State
  Jamkhandi State
  Jamkhandi State was one of the princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. Its capital was Jamakhandi. It was one of the southern Mahratta Jagirs. Its Hindu rulers were of the Pathwardhan dynasty and used the title "Raja" or "Raja Sahib"...
  
  
• Janjira
• Jath State
  Jath State
  Jath State, also spelled Joth, was one of the non-salute princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. It was one of the southern Maratha Jagirs...
  
  
• Kagal Junior
• Kagal Senior
• Kapshi
• Kolhapur (princely state)
  Kolhapur (princely state)
  Kolhapur State was a princely State of British India, under the Deccan Division of the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. It was considered the fourth most important Mahratta principalities, the other three being Baroda State, Gwalior State and Indore State...
  
  
• Kurundwad Junior
• Kurundwad Senior
• Latur
  LaTur
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• Miraj Junior
  Miraj Junior
  Maraj Junior was one of the non-salute princely states of British India, under the southern division of the Bombay Presidency, forming part of the southern Mahratta Jagirs, and later the Deccan States Agency. The State of Miraj was founded before 1750 and was the former capital of the pre-British...
  
  
• Miraj Senior
  Miraj Senior
  Maraj Senior was a princely states of British India, under the southern division of the Bombay Presidency, forming part of the southern Mahratta Jagirs, and later the Deccan States Agency. The State of Miraj was founded before 1750 and was the former capital of the pre-British State of Sangli. In...
  
  
• Mudhol State
  Mudhol State
  The Principality of Mudhol was one of the 9-gun princely states of British India, under the summit of Niranjan. The state measured 368 square miles in area. According to the 1901 census, the population was 63,001, with the population of the town itself at 8,359 in that year. In 1901, the state...
  
  
• Phaltan State
  Phaltan State
  Phaltan Statewas one of the non-salute princely states of British India, under the central division of the Bombay Presidency, under the states of the Kolhapur-Dekkan Residency, Satara Agency and later the Deccan States Agency. It was one of the Satara Jahagirs. The state measured 397 square miles...
  
  
• Ramdurg State
  Ramdurg State
  Ramdurg State was one of the non-salute princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, later the Deccan States Agency, founded in 1799. The Hindu rulers, of the Konkanasth dynasty, used the title of Raja. Ramdurg measured 438 square kilometers in area. According to the 1901 census,...
  
  
• Sangli State
  Sangli State
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• Sar Lashkar
• Savanur State
  Savanur State
  Savanur State was one of the princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. Its Muslim rulers, styled “Nawab” descended from Abdul Karim Khan, an Afghan in the service of the Mughal Empire, who received a grant near Delhi in 1672. His successors...
  
  
• Sawantwadi
• Torgal
• Vishalgad
  Vishalgad
  Vishalgad was one of the important forts of Shivaji and Maratha Empire. The name ‘Vishalgad’ meaning grand fort in Marathi, was given by Shivaji after annexing it for the Maratha Empire in 1659.The fort is about 1130 meters that is 3630 feet.-Origin of the name Vishalgad:Khelna was in the control...
  
  
• Wadi Estate